Deutsch homophones

schafft/Schaft

"schafft" is a verb; "Schaft" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.

Data vintage

Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "schafft" arrives as a verb, while "Schaft" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "schaf" then splits - "schafft" (7 letters) vs "Schaft" (6).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across schafft, Schaft: acfhst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • schafft

    7 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCCVCCC

    Inventory acfhst · no private letters vs siblings

  • Schaft

    6 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCCVCC

    Inventory acfhst · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "schafft" when you mean: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schaffen
  • Write "Schaft" when you mean: ein Griff an einer Stange und an anderen länglichen Gegenständen

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • schafftcshafft · scahfft · scchafft · schafftt · schaftf · schfaft
  • Schaftcshaft · scahft · scchaft · schaftt · schatf · schfat

Each spelling

schafft

verb · /ʃaft/ · #1,708 frequency

3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schaffen

Schaft

noun · /ʃaft/ · #17,398 frequency

ein Griff an einer Stange und an anderen länglichen Gegenständen

Nearby German homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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